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IF THE CLOUDS BE FULL OF RAIN

THEY SHALL EMPTY THEMSELVES

UPON THE EARTH

The Place Where the Tree Falleth, There it Shall Be

We are reading today in the Book of Ecclesiastes. This book of

wisdom is said to be written by King Solomon; and I see no

reason to dispute that. There are many sayings in here that are

really good. Most of it stands alone as just a bit of wisdom and

was also profitable as instructions to his son. The writing of

Ecclesiastes is not like the writing of Paul. Some of the

translators wanted to leave it out of the Bible because they didn’t

see how it was connected to the other books. But to me, I

couldn’t do without the Book of Ecclesiastes because it is part of

the whole. Yes, there might be some things that are not

understood as to what Solomon had in his mind; but then there

are other things that just fall right in line—yes, yes, yes! And I

want to speak about a couple of those things.

So I want to take a thought from Ecclesiastes 11:3 and entitle it,

If the Clouds Be Full of Rain They Shall Empty Themselves upon the

Earth. Now he is not necessarily speaking of ‘It’s coming up a

cloud and it is going to rain,’ because that is something that

would be obvious; but he had a different thought in mind. And

what we learn from reading Verse 3 is that when the time comes

for something to happen, it will happen. Now let’s pray before

we go any deeper into the Word of God.

Heavenly Father, once again we come to you. And, Lord, as always

we come with thanksgiving in our heart, giving glory to you; because

to you we owe all the glory. And we gladly give the glory. Not so

much that we owe it; we just love to praise you, love to glorify you, and

love to thank you because you are so good. I just pray this morning

that you will not only anoint me to speak, but that you will anoint the


hearers, and that we may all benefit from the reading of your Word and

from the ministering this morning. We ask this in Jesus Christ’s name.

Amen.

Now I want to begin reading in Ecclesiastes 11:1. It says, “Cast

thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days.”

Again, this is not talking about going out to the seaside and

casting some bread out there upon the water. No, these are

deeds—cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it

will return back to you. We take this to mean our work that we

are doing; it could be deeds or the work of the Lord. I thought

about this when I came across a letter that I had found inside my

Bible where I had put it not too long ago. The subject header of

it is entitled, Appreciation. The letter came from a place called,

Rukunjiri, Uganda, which is near the Rift Valley. The Rift Valley

is kind of like our Grand Canyon that we have here in the United

States. It’s a part of the earth that has been pulling apart over

the many years and has made a very long rift through the

continent of Africa. It’s an area that gets rain quite often; and

there are banana trees growing everywhere. I have personally

been in the different places in the Rift valley. There are people

there that take the bananas and make what is called banana

whiskey (which is like what we call Moonshine liquor here in

the United States). I didn’t go there to get any banana whiskey;

but after preaching, they took me to do a little sightseeing.

Anyway, in this letter a brother was thanking me for explaining

about the 70th Week of Daniel, and for sending some materials,

in which there was an audio message entitled, The Dangers and

Pitfalls of Being too Judgmental, which really blessed him. He

thanked God also for the anointing under which it was

delivered; and he liked the way that I presented the messages.

It really blessed us to receive his letter. We didn’t post the letter

to our website, as we don’t do that. It would be all right to post

them on our site; but I look at it this way: If I write you a letter,

if it is to you personally, I wouldn’t want it to be all over the


world in a few days. So I just decided if someone writes to us,

then it is between them and us. We don’t post it out there, and

that is just the way it is.

So after reading this letter, Ecclesiastes 11:1 came to my mind,

because the message entitled, The Dangers and Pitfalls of being too

Judgmental had been preached quite a number of years ago. It

was bread that had been cast upon the water and now had

returned and come back around to bless us again.

Sometimes we are too judgmental on things, aren’t we? And

sometimes we misjudge things. This reminds me of a dream I

had at the end of July in 2015, which showed me to be careful

about judging by appearance. In the dream, I was planning to

have some trees trimmed and maybe even taken down. I put the

word out about what I wanted done. Then one day I was sitting

in the house and there came a knock at the door. I got up and

went and opened the door and there stood a young man that

looked to be in his mid-20s or less, and I noticed he had a folder

(notebook) in his hand. He said, “Sir, I’m here to apply for the

job of trimming trees.” Upon analyzing him and his size (very

small), I thought to myself, “This is probably not the man for the

job; but since he has made the trip over here I will get him to

trim a few of the low-hanging limbs.” While standing there with

him, he opened up the folder and began to show me

photographs of what he had done in the business of trimming

and topping trees. I was shocked at what he could do. I then

realized that I had grossly underestimated him. Judging from

his size and age caused me to arrive at the conclusion that he

was not the man for the job. But after beholding what he could

do, I realized that I had misjudged his ability. Then I woke up.

Sometimes we misjudge by appearance. But according to the

photographs, he could do more than anyone that I could think

of hiring for the job. So many times, we judge too quickly on

certain things, and learn later of our misjudgment.


Here, I want to tell about another dream I had approximately

a month ago, which I have not told publically. I had a dream

that the resurrection of the members of the wife had taken place

(which I believe is close), and I saw some of the people. And to

my surprise there was my (natural) older brother, James. When

he was alive here on this earth, he was one that would serve the

Lord for a while and really be in it, but it seemed he just couldn’t

hang in there for a long period of time. The fact is, he was the

one that encouraged me to go to church when I was young, and

he helped me in the things of the Lord. When I saw him in the

dream, I thought to myself, “This can’t be.” Because at the time

of his death, he was drinking alcoholic beverages. So, I thought,

“This can’t be so.” But I looked and there he was. He was kind

of like he was before he passed on, kind of standoffish a little bit.

In the dream I was sitting around a table with some of the saints

that had been resurrected and I motioned for James to come and

join us, because he was standing off from us like he use to do

before he had passed on. That was his nature. Many times he

felt like he was not worthy to come in and worship with us,

especially if he had backslid. In those days, when we first came

into the gospel in the 1950s, people would often backslide and

go back to their old way of life. And we were told that if one

sinned that they would lose their new birth and would need to

be born again all over again. But now we know if a person gets

born again (just like their natural birth)—one time, that’s it!

They can’t be born again twice. In the dream, I thought, “This

can’t be so.” But there he was with basically the same nature,

standing off a little bit, about twenty feet from us. I said to him,

“Come on. Come on and sit down!” And then he smiled and

came on.

See, that was kind of his nature before he died. I got to

thinking about Jesus having a similar nature in His resurrected

body as He had in His natural body. We see Him talking with

the disciples on the way to Emmaus. When they had reached


their destination, Jesus made as though He would continue on

the way; but they constrained Him to come in and stay with

them and He did. He sat down with them to eat, and when He

broke the bread in a certain way they recognized it and knew

who He was. Notice, they didn’t know who He was until they

saw the way He was breaking the bread, then they recognized

the resurrected Savior.

Many times we can misjudge. We could misjudge the woman

at the well that Jesus spoke to. We could misjudge the man that

was condemned as a thief that was crucified with Jesus. He

evidently was quite a criminal to be put to death like that; but

somehow he had something in him. There were two thieves put

to death, one on the left side and one on the right side of Jesus

Christ. But this one particular man had something in him that

the other one didn’t have. The one man said, “If thou be Christ,

save thyself and us.” But the other man rebuked the one man

and said, “Don’t you fear God? We are receiving justly; for we

are receiving due reward for our deeds; but this man has done

nothing.” And he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when thou

comest into thy kingdom.” And Jesus said unto him, “Verily I

say unto thee, today you shall be with me in paradise.” (Luke

23:32-43) This man was a trophy of God’s grace. So when this

man died, he went down into paradise, which was a separate part

of hell or the place where souls were kept before Jesus Christ

came and died to pay the sin debt. But after Jesus went down

and preached to the spirits in prison and rose from the dead, He

brought all those redeemed souls up out of hell and took them

up into paradise with Him. And all the other souls that were left

there in hell are eternally lost. There’s one thing about this man

whom Jesus saved while on the cross, he didn’t have to stay in

prison very long; for he was there for only about three days and

nights. Because when Jesus rose from the dead, He brought

those Old Testament saints up with Him, those that had died in

the Lord. He cleaned that place out of all the people that


belonged to God. The Bible says in Ephesians, Chapter 4, that

when Jesus Christ ascended up on high, He led captivity captive.

So just as He preached to the spirits (theophanies) in prison (1

Peter 3:19), there was still some teaching going on after they

were resurrected with Him and walked this earth for forty days.

For during those forty days, He taught things that pertained to

the Kingdom of God. The thief that was crucified along with

Jesus probably knew very little about these things of the Lord,

and he probably needed just a bit of teaching concerning the

things of Christ.

Let’s read Ecclesiastes 11:1 again, “Cast thy bread upon the

waters, for thou shalt find it after many days.” There are thousands

of sermons that have been preached and have gone all over the

world by postal mail and through our website; and now they

can be heard all over the world. From time to time we get letters,

and we can see that when the bread is cast upon the waters it

will accomplish what it is supposed to. This bread means the

Word of God. Cast the Word upon the waters and it will

accomplish its purpose when we are in the will of God.

Let’s continue on with Verse 2. It says, “Give a portion to seven,

and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the

earth.” It seems Solomon is telling his son to share what God has

blessed him with while holding back enough to keep for himself

in bad times. He was telling him to be a responsible person,

taking care of those that depend upon him; his family being first

priority. Now here is where I’m getting the title to the message,

Verse 3, “If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the

earth:” The clouds emptying themselves relates to what is

promised when the conditions are right. That’s when it will

come into being. “and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the

north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.” This means

that certain things are going to be certain ways as is determined

by God in every situation that pertains to the will of God.


So before going any further, I want to drop something in right

here that happened a couple of days ago. I was needing to cut

the grass in our yard, so I put my work clothes and work boots

on. I told my wife, “I’m going to cut the grass.” She said, “It’s

just too hot to get out there.” And it was very hot; it was in the

mid-90s. I said, “I think I will be all right.” Then she said, “I

think you ought to wait until its cooler. Please don’t go. Please

wait!” Well, I was going on to cut it anyway. See, I’m a little

stubborn; I will admit that part. Sometimes, I think

stubbornness is a good attribute as long as it is kept in check. I

believe it is an attribute that comes from God, if used right. Well,

I stepped outside, and it didn’t look too cloudy and the sun was

shining real bright. Then suddenly, it began to rain, and it

rained as hard as I have ever seen it rain. Well, I came back

inside. I thought, “The grass is wet, so I’ll wait and do it another

day.” So I came back upstairs and took my work clothes and

work boots off and changed back into my other clothes, then I

sat down in the recliner. I sat there watching it rain for about

thirty minutes; then suddenly it stopped, and the sun came back

out. For about an hour the sun just shined real bright, so I said

to myself, “The grass is dry now, so I can get out and cut it.” But

it was still very hot; that sun was just beating down. So I got

ready to go again. I changed back into my work clothes, put my

work boots on, and there I went. I tell you, you are not going to

believe this, but it’s true anyway. No sooner did I go downstairs

and start out the door to cut the grass, it suddenly began to rain,

rain, and rain! So I turned around and came back inside and up

the stairs, and I met my wife coming through the house. She

said, “I didn’t have to ask you not to do it; someone else told you

not to.” So I changed back out of my work clothes and work

boots and went and sat back down in the recliner. And do you

know what? It suddenly stopped raining. But there wasn’t any

grass cutting that day. I finally got to cut the grass the next day,

which was much cooler outside. So it eventually worked out.


See, if the clouds are full, it shall rain. Maybe all of that

happened about my wanting to cut the grass in order to bring

this message to my attention. God lays things in His Word and

He lets it lay there and it builds up and it builds up to the time

it is to be fulfilled. And when the time comes for it to be fulfilled,

the unwritten conditions bring to pass the written Word. Did

you hear what I said? The unwritten conditions bring to pass the

written Word. Now when we look at what was written for this

day, we see it is happening as Ephesians 4:13-16 has come alive

for us.

Now I want to go to the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 7, and read

about a prophecy. This prophecy is about the Lord giving a sign,

which He cast upon the waters, and it just laid there for

hundreds of years. So here is a promise that God gave through

the mouth of Isaiah. And I want to bring this in because I love

the fact that when Jesus Christ our Savior was born (Him being

the central figure of all the Bible), it split history right down the

middle between B.C. and A.D. It started a new thing. Isaiah 7:14

says, “Therefore the Lord himself (notice, the Lord Himself) shall

give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and

shall call his name Immanuel.” Now every virgin in Israel could

have prepared. They could have gotten their garments ready for

a baby, and they could have gotten the baby diapers and the

baby bottles ready, saying, “I hope I will be that virgin!”

Remember, this prophecy was given 742 years before the

scripture was fulfilled. See, when it’s time, it is going to rain.

When the clouds are full, get out of the way, because there is

going to be a cloudburst. The scripture fulfilled exactly what

was said. So when the fullness of time came, God sent forth His

Son, made of a woman, made under the law.

Listen, I’m going to make a statement and I want you to take

this right. In order for the Word to be the Word, it has to be in

season. Otherwise, you can just quote it—and Paul called it, “the

dead letter of the Word,” which is the tree of the knowledge of


good and evil. And unless it is in season, it can be misused. I’ve

come through Pentecost and saw many good people go down

roads of disappointment because a scripture says a certain thing

and they tried to bring it into being before time. The Bible

speaks of the lion and the lamb dwelling together; but if we try

to put them together before the time, that lion will devour that

lamb so quickly that it will make your head spin. But when the

time comes, I promise you, the lion and the lamb shall lay

together; and even the bear and calf shall feed together. All these

things shall be in their time—when the clouds are full it will

begin to rain to bring in the great millennium. In the Book of

Deuteronomy 32:2, it says, “My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my

speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb,

and as the showers upon the grass:”

Now let’s fast-forward 742 years. I want to read in the Book of

Luke 1:26-28, and then Matthew 1:18-25. As we read in Luke

and Matthew, we can see how these two books come together

showing the birth of Jesus, and the conditions surrounding this

important event. But if we just read one of them, we don’t get

the whole picture. If we only take Matthew, then we will never

know that there was an angel called Gabriel that came down and

said to Mary, “Thou art highly favored of God, and you will

conceive and bring forth.” But when we get to Matthew, he

picks it up where Luke left off and brings in Joseph, and how

Mary was big with child, and the child being born, and the

conditions surrounding this beginning of God bringing His Son,

the Lamb of God, into the earth. See, when it rains—when it was

time He came.

Let’s begin reading Luke 1:26. It says, “And in the sixth month

the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named

Nazareth,” Now the reason he is bringing in the sixth month is

because Verse 13 of this chapter is telling about the angel Gabriel

coming to Zechariah and telling him that Elizabeth shall bear

him a son. This was six months before Gabriel came to Mary.


So John was born six months before Jesus was. Verses 27-28, “To

a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of

David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. And the angel came in unto

her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee:

blessed art thou among women.” I tell you, if Gabriel comes and

tells you that you are blessed; then you better believe you are

blessed! We are blessed in the Lord, and the clouds are full and

it has begun to rain for us in this end time. And soon there’s

going to be a cloudburst! That’s why we are seeing just what the

Word says being fulfilled. Because it is the Spirit. These things

that we now see and hear have come into being because of the

season of time.

Continuing with Verse 29, “And when she saw him, she was

troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation

this should be.” I think she stayed calmer than I would have if

Gabriel came before me. When Gabriel came to Daniel, he fell

down as a dead man; but the angel touched him and said, “Get

up, I want to talk to you.” Then another time, after a visitation,

Daniel stayed sick for three days. But Mary seemed to take it

well. God prepares us for what He wants us to do. He kept

Mary from having a heart attack, because He wanted to use her

in the future. Verse 30, “And the angel said unto her, Fear not,

Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.”

Well, in reading the Word and believing the Word, the Lord

has given us the same favor with Him in the Spirit, because we

believe the Word of God that He sends. I tell you, the clouds are

full and it has begun to rain and the promises of God are coming

to pass. And there’s a people receiving it and are walking with

God. And they are seeing all things come into being as God has

promised.

So the clouds were full for this prophecy of Isaiah, and here

came the angel visiting Mary—the clouds were full, and the

raining of the Word of God fell upon her. Verse 31, “And, behold,

thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call


his name JESUS.” (Isaiah called Him Immanuel, meaning God

with us.) Verse 32, “He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of

the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his

father David:” Verses 33-34, “And he shall reign over the house of

Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Then said

Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?”

She was sane enough (and God saw to it) to talk back to the

angel. You have to be sane to talk to an angel. Mary was sane

and sensible with her reasonable conversation with the angel

that came direct from God. I love that. Verse 35, “And the angel

answered and said unto her (He came with the answer. I like

Gabriel; he is one of my favorite angels. There’s Michael, the one

that stands for Israel. But I have a special feeling for Gabriel.

Gabriel took the time and explained all this to Mary. There’s one

thing about it, he always comes with an answer.), The Holy Ghost

shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow

thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be

called the Son of God.” It’s raining, it’s raining; it’s raining! That’s

what Mary could have said—it’s raining!

First, the angel came to Zacharias to tell about John; and then

here came this scripture concerning the very Son of God. All of

this scripture that laid back there for over 700 years, suddenly it

was right here coming to fruition. And that is the same thing

with us today. Many of these things that have been written for

our day has already come to pass; such as there’s going to come

a seventh church age messenger. Yes, it rained and he came.

And now there has come into being all this that is written for us,

which worked its way through Revelation, Chapter 10, as this

rain fell, showing the spiritual coming of Christ in His fullness

as the Mighty Angel. And now we are seeing it rain on

Ephesians 4:13-16 and Revelation 19:7-8 for this day.

Verse 36, “And, behold, thy cousin Elizabeth, she hath also

conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her,

who was called barren.” Zachariah and Elizabeth were old but


God just renewed their youth. The rain was falling so that this

could happen and their son John would become the forerunner

of Jesus. But with Jesus, this was just a straight out miracle,

because this was the Word made flesh; this was the Savoir of the

world coming into being. This was the one that would die as the

Lamb of God, and this made Him worthy to take the Book of

Redemption and redeem us all back to God. When the clouds

are full, it will rain. And now there is some rain for us, because

the clouds are full. Verse 37 says, “For with God nothing shall be

impossible:”

Now I want to ask you, “Do you believe that?” I think about

what Brother Don told us about an event that happened to him

and his father back up in the mountains many years ago. They

had an old truck and the clutch went bad and stopped working.

Back in those days there were not many auto parts stores where

they could get a clutch, and it probably would have taken

several weeks to get one mailed in. Well, after they got out of

the truck, they just happened to notice—there in a freshly

plowed field was a clutch sticking up out of the ground as

though someone had dropped it down before them. And it was

the exact kind of clutch they needed! So they put it in and went

on their way. Hallelujah! See, that’s our God. How can we keep

from shouting the victory every day? How can we help but

praise Him? How can we contain our excitement? He is the

great God that meets every need, and He does some things just

because He is God. And that’s what He was doing with Mary.

So in Verses 36-37, He told Mary about Elizabeth, so that she

would have someone to share this miracle with, because

Elizabeth was going to have a child too, and God says, “It’s of

me.” Verse 38, “And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be

it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.”

Be it unto me! Can you say that this morning, with all of your

heart, with all your strength, and with all your might? Can you

say, “Be it unto me according to thy Word, Lord. Let the rain


fall; let the cloudburst come.” The clouds are full, it’s raining!

Be it unto me. Help us to fulfill that which you have ordained

for us in this day and this hour.

I remember the dream that I had where I saw a king walking

towards me and he was just freshly crowned. And I walked up

to him and said, “I am ready to do whatever you would bid me

to do.” It was a king like they had in Israel in days gone by; for

he could have said, “Cut that man’s head off,” or he could have

done something else. But he said to me, “Thou shall ride in my

second chariot, and I want you to be keeper of my papers.” And

there they are back there—the books! It has rained and it has

produced a crop. The Word has been sewed and now it is

bringing forth. Now we come rejoicing bringing in the sheaves!

Now let’s go to Matthew and read where Luke left off. These

two books were written a couple of years apart. Remember,

Luke was not one of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. Many

people seem to be surprised to hear that Luke wasn’t one of the

twelve apostles, but he wasn’t. Matthew 1:18-19 says, “Now the

birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was

espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child

of the Holy Ghost. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not

willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away

privily.” (Notice, Luke didn’t bring any of this in. So if we just

read Luke, we miss part of the picture. And it is the same if we

just read Matthew; we will miss some real good things. So we

have to read them both.) Verses 20-21, “But while he thought on

these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream

(Gabriel has more work to do.), saying, Joseph, thou son of David,

fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in

her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou

shalt call his name JESUS, for he shall save his people from their sins.”

I really love this. He shall save His people from their sins.

Watch. Verses 22-25, “Now all this was done, that it might be

fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Behold,


a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall

call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had

bidden him, and took unto him his wife: And he knew her not till she

had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.”

Do you see how good God is? This was in a day when they

still had some morality about them, Joseph said, “What am I

going to do? Mary has definitely been unfaithful to the espousal

vows. No, I can’t go through with the marriage; I’ve got to stop

this thing before it goes any further. How can I get rid of Mary

without totally destroying her?” Then here came the angel—

always on time. God never lets us make mistakes that are

detrimental. He didn’t mind Joseph thinking like that, because

that was normal thinking. But when he actually began to put

legs on what his thoughts were to bring them into being, here

came an angel in a dream, saying, “Fear not to take unto thee

Mary thy wife; for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy

Ghost.”

So we see that when God puts something in His Word, it’s the

unwritten conditions that bring to pass that written Word. On

the Jewish Feast Day of Pentecost the Word says that the Holy

Ghost came; but it doesn’t say what all would be when the Holy

Ghost got here. It doesn’t say, Peter and John will be going up

to the temple and there will be a man lame from his mother’s

womb. See, this was not written anywhere until after it took

place. The apostles said to a lame man who was asking for alms,

“Silver and gold, have I none. But such as I have, I give it unto

thee. Get up and walk!” And the man began to leap and dance

and praise God! These are things that were brought into being,

although it was not written that it would be.

We take what Philip did down in Samaria preaching the Word.

And the Bible doesn’t say anywhere prior to this that they were

going to have a big revival there. But he was having a big revival

and the whole city was rejoicing, and then an angel of God came


to him. And that angel said, “Go down into the desert, and there

will be a man.” But it doesn’t say anything in the Word about

what would happen when he finished his work in the desert.

But the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God, picked Philip up and he

was found over in another city preaching the Word. That’s the

real Word. That is God’s way of bringing that Word to pass and

making that Word live.

I’ve been looking at a condition concerning the two beasts that

are spoken of in Revelation, Chapter 13. One of beasts that came

up out of the sea has ten horns; and the body of that beast goes

all the way back before Rome became an empire. And that one

beast that came out of the sea had seven heads (seven forms of

Roman government as it came through time), and ten horns,

which are present tense governments (that are present now).

They give their power over to the antichrist to rule. But then we

read Verse 11 of that chapter, and here is an entirely separate

beast—he has been like a lamb, but he begins to speak like a

dragon. Well, if we listen real good to one of our presidential

candidates we might hear the lamb beginning to speak like a

dragon in this presidential election. This means that something

will cut the United States (the lamb beast) away from that

European beast, because it has to be two separate beasts at the

end time. In other words, it changes from globalism to

Americanism. So let us keep our eyes open to see the next thing

God will do here.

There are so many of these things I could get today of how the

Word came and it was filled exactly. There was Jesus when He

was born, and how He lived thirty-three years here in order to

show us human beings how to live for God. He lived such a life;

like the people will in the millennium. And when Christ came

upon Jesus, there was a seamless transition; then He began to be

called Jesus the Christ. And I’m telling you today, “This

scripture of 1 Corinthians 15:51-57 concerning the end time is

now being fulfilled; the resurrection and the translation and the


catching away—this day this scripture is fulfilled.” Now you

say, “Brother Howard, you have stepped out on a limb, haven’t

you?” No. Let’s go to the Book of Luke again, Chapter 4 (and

this is after Jesus came out of the wilderness after being tempted

of the devil for forty days). Verses 16-21, “And he came to

Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he

went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And

when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach

the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to

preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind,

to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of

the Lord. (I love that—to heal those souls that have been bruised

through time. We’ve taken our knocks, our hits. And some

people let it linger a little longer for different reasons. And we

all have certain bruises. Like our precious Sister Atha said

before she went on to be with Lord, “I’ve got knots all over my

head; but I’ve got peace,” after coming through a long journey.)

And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat

down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were

fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, This day is this

scripture fulfilled in your ears.”

Notice here, Jesus saying, “This day is this scripture fulfilled in

your ears,” was not the ending of His ministry, but the

beginning. Now did you catch what I said? This is important.

Jesus said, “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears,” and

He went forth healing the sick and raising the dead. And He

had a three and a half years ministry after this. That began His

ministry; not ended it. In other words, a cloudburst had come

to that scripture. When the clouds are full it will rain. Now the

clouds were full and then it began to rain and that rain fell for

three and a half years. There was something started. It’s the


same thing today—it has begun to rain. It doesn’t mean that it

is all done; it means it has all begun.

Do you see what I am saying here? I don’t want you to take

me wrong or misunderstand me here. But what I’m saying is

when Jesus said, “This day is this scripture fulfilled in your

hearing,” all eyes were upon Him. His ministry started then and

lasted three and a half years. It didn’t end there; it started there.

This day! In other words, the anointing came upon it. That

scripture was fulfilled, but not the ministry; for it took three and

half years plus the forty days that He was here after resurrection.

Do you see that? Do you see that when the clouds are full, it will

rain? Meaning when it is time for something to come to pass,

that is the way it is. I preached a message recently entitled, There

is Nothing More Powerful than the Word Whose Time has Come to Be

Fulfilled, and nothing can stop it; for with God, nothing shall be

impossible.

We’ve cast our bread upon the water. That is what Jesus did.

See, Paul cast his bread upon the water. He said there was going

to be a rapture. He said there was going to be a translation. He

said there was going to be a resurrection. That’s for us; and we

are going to be without spot, without blemish. And John said

that we would be dressed in fine linen, clean and white, which

is the righteousness of the saints—His wife has made herself

ready. This day this scripture is fulfilled. It has come into being,

and we are living right in the midst of it! The clouds are full of

rain and it is raining, and we are participants of it. God bless

you.

We see how ‘if the clouds be full, it shall rain upon the earth,’

and ‘cast your bread upon the waters and it will return unto

you’—those are spiritual things. We see that when the scripture

was written, saying a virgin would conceive, an angel came and

brought it to pass. But there was nowhere it said that she would

be engaged to a man named Joseph. There was nowhere that it

said that an angel would have to come and get Joseph


straightened out on it. The only thing that was written was a

little seed Word, and then the rain brought it to pass. Just like

Romans 11:26-36; it shows the gospel should go back to Israel—

there was a little seed Word. And now the rain has begun to

bring certain things into being; for the gospel is now returning

to the Jews.

Let’s pray. Heavenly Father, it’s in the blessed name of the Lord

Jesus Christ that we pray, and we thank you for your Word. We thank

you for your goodness and mercy upon us all. May we walk worthy of

the calling wherewith we are called. And, Lord, we thank you and say

with your servant Paul that we weren’t worthy of this grace, but you

deemed it differently, you gave us the grace anyway. And we are so

thankful for it. We bless your name and we praise you. May you reveal

this message to your children. Amen.


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